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| Abstract Title: | Professional development and struggles of beginning instructors teaching design labs |
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| Abstract: | Being a teacher in an instructional laboratory where students design their own experiments is not an easy task. Being a first year graduate TA who never taught before makes this challenge even harder. How do you guide the students to design a productive experiment? How do you teach them to communicate their findings? How do you create a learning community in your classroom? We will report on our work in an urban university where we implemented the Investigative Learning Environment (ISLE) approach in a large-enrollment introductory physics sequence (algebra and calculus based). A part of the approach involves students designing their own experiments in labs guided by specific questions and self-assessment rubrics. We describe professional development efforts, data collection (observation protocols) and their effects on the instruction and student learning and attitudes. |
| Abstract Type: | Symposium Talk |
| Parallel Session: | Establishing scientific norms in the lab: a spotlight on the instructor |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Joshua Rutberg Rutgers University |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Eugenia Etkina |
